Educator accused of taking vouchers (Florida)

[The Backlash Cometh]

I couldn't find a link in the Orlando Sentinel on-line pages, but this is out of today's Local & State paper:

An Ocala man was arrested Thursday on a charge of pocketing state money intended to pay the private-school tuition of poor children under one of Gov. Jeb Bush's prized school voucher programs.

James Kirk Isenhour, 56, chairman of the Silver Archer Foundation, was charged with grand theft in the first degree and booked into the Marion County Jail. Prosecutors say he took $268,125 in voucher money during 2003 and spent it for other uses.

The money was to have financed a year in private school for 75 students. Silver Archer is one of several private organizations designated around the state to distribute money collected from corporations to pay for private school tution.

Florida law gives businesses credict on their corporate income taxes for contributing to the scholarships.

<Lengthy article, but this is all I'm allowed to post -- hopefully someone can find the article, if not in the Orlando Sentinel, perhaps in an Ocala paper?>